Sylvia Straus Heschel (died March 26, 2007, New York City) was an American classical pianist of Russian Jewish descent. She married Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on December 10, 1946, in Los Angeles, California. Their daughter Susannah Heschel is a professor of Jewish studies. Straus studied music, philosophy, and literature. Arthur Rubinstein recommended her to Eduard Steuermann (1892-1964), a Jewish Pole who had studied piano with Busoni, and composition with Schoenberg, and was affiliated with the Second Viennese School. Straus became a master student of Steuermann. She died, aged 94, in 2007.
References
- Heymal, Michael to the Existence of God: Music in the Work of Abraham J. Heschel
- Heschel, Susannah Abraham Joshua Heschel (1996)
